The Annual Gene DeGruson Memorial Lecture

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Presented By: Merilyn Simonds : "Back to the Future of Books: Paper, Pixels, and the Lasting Impression of Books"

Location: Governors Room, OSC

Address: 302 E Cleveland Ave Pittsburg, KS 66762

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Merilyn Simonds is the author of 18 books, including the novel The Holding, (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice), and the Canadian classic nonfiction novel, The Convict Lover, a finalist for the Governor General's Award. In 2017, Bookmark Canada unveiled a plaque to honor the place of The Convict Lover in Canada’s literary landscape. Simonds’ work is anthologized and published internationally. In 2012 she published The Paradise Project, a collection of flash fiction hand-printed on an antique press with endpapers made from plants in her garden. The experience of producing the collection in both a digital and book-arts edition is the subject of Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels, and the Lasting Impression of Books. Her most recent publication is a novel Refuge, set in Mexico City, New York City, and eastern Ontario. She shares her life with writer Wayne Grady, dividing their time between Mexico and Canada.